What a decade this was. So much evolution of my music taste happened, and Tuned Up was founded in 2011. The below 250 tracks are songs that shaped the past decade for me, and tunes I just plain enjoyed. Hope you find something you like that you haven’t heard before. The Spotify playlist can be found at the bottom of the article. -RG
| Abandon Kansas – Marching Around Me |
| Abel – Fire Walk With Me |
| alt-J – Dissolve Me |
| alt-J – Hunger of the Pine |
| Anberlin – Impossible |
| Anberlin – Pray Tell |
| Anberlin – Self Starter |
| Anberlin – Stranger Ways |
| Andrew Belle – Details |
| Andrew Belle – T R N T |
| Andrew Belle – The Enemy |
| Arcade Fire – Reflektor |
| Artifex Pereo – Tied to the Sunset |
| August Burns Red – Fault Line |
| August Burns Red – Internal Cannon |
| Author – Wander |
| Beach House – Myth |
| Beartooth – Beaten In Lips |
| Bishop Briggs – White Flag |
| Blink 182 – Bored to Death |
| Bon Iver – Hinnom, TX |
| Bon Iver – Holocene |
| Bonelang – Tidal Breathing |
| Brick + Mortar – Locked In A Cage |
| Cadets – A Drop In the Ocean |
| Capital Cities – Chartruese |
| Cardboard Kids – Social |
| Childish Gambino – This Is America |
| Church Tongue – Die Wild |
| CHVRCHES – Never Ending Circles |
| CHVRCHES – Tether |
| CHVRCHES – Under the Tide |
| Circa Survive – Child of the Desert |
| Citizens – Madness |
| Civil Twilight – Move/Stay |
| Civilian – Skulls |
| Coldplay – Birds |
| Coldplay – Midnight |
| Coldplay – Paradise |
| Coldplay – Us Against the World |
| Come Wind – Cease to Be |
| Come Wind – Rend Your Heart |
| Comrades – Calling Down Fire (To Keep Warm) |
| Comrades – Endless |
| Comrades – Farewell |
| Contact – Never Stop |
| Copeland – I Can Make You Feel Young Again |
| Copeland – Lavender |
| Copeland – Pope |
| Daft Punk – Give Life Back to Music |
| Danger Scene – You Are the One |
| Daniella Mason – Tell Me It’s Over |
| Death Cab For Cutie – Doors Unlocked and Open |
| Death Cab For Cutie – I Dreamt We Spoke Again |
| Delta Spirit – Money Saves |
| Emery – Scissors |
| Empire of the Sun – Alive |
| Ex Cops – Separator |
| Falling Up – Flora |
| Falling Up – Greying Morning |
| Falling Up – Mscron |
| Fever 333 – Made An America |
| Fever Fever – Beautiful Dream |
| Fine Animal – Perpetually Waking Up |
| Fit For A King – Warpath |
| Fleurie – Wildwood |
| Foo Fighters – Run |
| Forenn – Hearth (Featuring Breanne Duren) |
| Foster the People – Helena Beat |
| Friendly Faux – Going Going Gone |
| Future Islands – Light House |
| Future Islands – Ran |
| Future Islands – Seasons (Waiting on You) |
| Ghost Key – 3:33 |
| Ghost Soul Trio – Potassitorium |
| Gorillaz – Andromeda |
| Graceful Closure – Chasing Fears |
| half alive – Creature |
| Half Waif – Severed Logic |
| Haste the Day – White As Snow |
| Hidden Hospitals – Pulp |
| Hidden Hospitals – Swan Dive |
| Highasakite – Hiroshima |
| Highasakite – Since Last Wednesday |
| House of Heroes – Out My Way |
| Japanese Breakfast – Machinist |
| Jimmy Eat World – Get Right |
| Jimmy Eat World – My Best Theory |
| July Talk – Headsick |
| Kacey Musgraves – High Horse |
| Kendrick Lamar – Humble |
| Kevin Schlereth – Tables |
| Keyoung – Wildfire of Eden |
| Kid Runner – Move |
| Kid Runner – Give Me Something to Love |
| Kye Kye – Broke |
| Kye Kye – I Already See It |
| Last of the Wildmen – Morning Light |
| Leagues – Spotlight |
| Lemonade – Durutti Shores |
| Let’s Eat Grandma – Falling Into Me |
| Letrainiump – So Alive |
| Lights – Siberia |
| Linkin Park – Lost In the Echo |
| Little Image – Dear Orphan |
| Local Natives – Sun Hands |
| Local Natives – You and I |
| Lorde – Green Light |
| Lorde – Tennis Court |
| M83 – Do It, Try It! |
| M83 – Midnight City |
| M83 – Oblivion |
| M83 – Steve McQueen |
| M83 – Reunion |
| Many Rooms – Which Is To Say, Everything |
| Metric – Speed the Collapse |
| Mewithoutyou – February 1878 |
| Michigander – Misery |
| Mike Mains and the Branches – Pouring Rain |
| Mountains Like Wax – Control |
| Muse – Follow Me |
| Muse – Madness |
| Mutemath – All Or Nothing |
| Mutemath – Everything’s New |
| Mutemath – Odd Soul |
| Mutemath – Safe If We Don’t Look Down |
| Mutemath – Stratosphere |
| Mutemath – Voice in the Silence |
| My Epic – Hail |
| My Epic – Lashes |
| My Epic – Lower Still |
| My Epic – Memoir |
| My Epic – Rich |
| Narrow / Arrow – Savior Talk |
| Neck Deep – In Bloom |
| Needtobreathe – Difference Maker |
| Nightly – No Vacancy |
| Nothing – Hymn to the Pillory |
| Now, Now – Window |
| Now, Now – Wolf |
| O’Brother – Machines Part 1 and 2 |
| Oceanspeak – Complain |
| Oceanspeak – HAWA |
| Odd Folks – Broozer |
| Of Monsters and Men – Human |
| Of Monsters and Men – Mountain Sound |
| Owl City – The Real World |
| P.O.D. – Murdered Love |
| Paper Route – Balconies |
| Paper Route – Better Life |
| Paper Route – Love Letters |
| Paper Route – Two Hearts |
| Phangs – One and Lonely |
| Phoenix – Entertainment |
| Playing to Vapors – Whisper |
| Polyenso – Be To Well (Always) |
| Polyenso – Not My Real Life |
| Polyenso – Pocket Soul |
| Pomegranates – Ezekiel |
| Pomegranates – Pass Away |
| Project 86 – SOTS |
| Purity Ring – Belispeak |
| Purity Ring – Bodyache |
| Purity Ring – Crawlersout |
| Purity Ring – Lofticries |
| PVRIS – Whats Wrong |
| R.LUM.R. – Show Me |
| Radiohead – Burn the Witch |
| Ravenhill – Blood on the Church Floor |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie |
| Rise Against – Satellite |
| Rob Vischer – Airwaves and Envelopes |
| Safemode – Gold Digger: Sam |
| Sainthood Reps – Animal Glue |
| Saintseneca – Happy Alone |
| Secret & Whisper – Famous For A Century |
| Seoul – Real June |
| Shame – Concrete |
| Shame – Dust on Trial |
| Silent Planet – Darkstrand (Hibushka) |
| Silent Planet – REDIVIDER |
| Silversun Pickups – Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings) |
| Sir Sly – High |
| Sleeping at Last – Moon |
| Sleeping at Last – Outlines |
| Sleeping at Last – The Ash In Our Clothes |
| Slow Magic – On Yr Side |
| Small Reactions – Saint In Robes |
| Sons – Doubt |
| St Vincent – Digital Witness |
| St Vincent – Los Ageless |
| Sucre – Inside |
| Sufjan Stevens – Death In Dignity |
| Sufjan Stevens – Fourth of July |
| Sufjan Stevens – I Walked |
| Switchfoot – Dark Horses |
| The 1975 – Its Not Living (If It’s Not With You) |
| The 1975 – lostmyhead |
| The 1975 – The City |
| The 1975 – The Sound |
| The Chariot – First |
| The Decemberists – Down by the Water |
| The Devil Wears Prada – Born to Lose |
| The Devil Wears Prada – To the Key of Evergreen |
| The End of the Ocean – bravado |
| The End of the Ocean – Star Crossed |
| The Hawk in Paris – The New Hello |
| The Head and the Heart – Ghosts |
| The Lonely Forest – Two Notes and a Beat |
| The Lost Revival – Two Minus One Equals One |
| The Lumineers – Submarines |
| The Midnight – Arcade Dreams |
| The Night Game – Coffee and Cigarettes |
| The Ongoing Concept – Cover Girl |
| The Receiver – To Battle an Island |
| The Soil and the Sun – Human Machine |
| The War on Drugs – Under the Pressure |
| The War on Drugs – Up All Night |
| The Wind and the Sea – Riddlin’ |
| Thrice – Black Honey |
| Thrice – Blinded |
| Tiger Drive – The In Between |
| Tiger Waves – I Hope You’ll Feel Alright |
| Timbre – Song of the Sun |
| Twenty One Pilots – Chlorine |
| Twenty One Pilots – Car Radio |
| Twenty One Pilots – Heavydirtysoul |
| Two Door Cinema Club – Sleep Alone |
| Two Door Cinema Club – Something Good Could Work |
| Tycho – Japan |
| Tycho – Receiver |
| Tycho – Spectre |
| Underoath – On My Teeth |
| Underoath – Paper Lung |
| Until the Ribbon Breaks – Pressure |
| Until the Ribbon Breaks – Romeo |
| Valise – Don’t Forget Me |
| Vampire Weekend – Diane Young |
| Vampire Weekend – Sunflower |
| Vampire Weekend – Cousins |
| Veaux – Wander |
| Vesperteen – Obsess/Possess |
| Washed Out – All I Know |
| Wave and Rome – Took Flight |
| Weeknight – Heartaches |
| Wolves at the Gate – Heralds |
| Wolves at the Gate – The Bird and the Snake |
| Young Magic – Holographic |
| Young the Giant – Superposition |
| Youth Lagoon – Daydream |
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